Where do your fresh fruits and vegetables come from?

U.S. supermarkets and restaurants sell fresh fruit and vegetables from all over the world. This resource shows common origins of more than 95 different produce commodities that are shipped into or across the United States each year. Use it to find the:

• volume of shipments each year
• leading state that produces it
• regions or countries where shipments originate
• percent (by volume) of total shipments each month, one indication of when a fruit or vegetable crop may be in season.

Information is collected by the Fruit and Vegetable Market News Service of the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. An annual summary shows domestic rail and piggyback movement and imports as well as export shipments of fresh fruit and vegetables. Information is based on shipments during 2007, included in the USDA's annual Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Shipments report (see source links below).

To use, select a commodity from menu and click "calculate."

IMPORTANT NOTE: This does NOT include all domestic movements of fresh produce commodities in the United States. The tool was developed to give consumers a better idea of the source of fresh produce items typically sold in U.S. retail and food service markets. It is possible that a produce item may come from a state or country not listed here. Also, locally grown produce sold in retail food stores is usually identified as locally grown, with information as to the state, town, and/or farm of origin.

© 2008 Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Photos courtesy USDA. Project credits